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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
To: Thomas Danckaert <thomas.danckaert@aeronomie.be>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: networkmanager hostname woes
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 04:57:05 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <204ebc50.AEMAP_-w0oEAAAAAAAAAAAPHPkIAAAACwQwAAAAAAAW9WABZub7T@mailjet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170913.120529.1808480687765633530.thomas.danckaert@aeronomie.be>


Thomas Danckaert writes:

> Hi Guix,
>
> since the change to networkmanager, I've been running into the 
> following problem: when I connect to a wireless network using 
> networkmanager, I can no longer start graphical applications 
> (starting any program fails with “cannot open display :0.0” and 
> similar messages).
>
> AFAIU, the cause is that networkmanager changes my hostname (after 
> DHCP?), in my case to “new-host2” or something similar, and this 
> seems to break the X session.  When I manually restore the hostname 
> with “sudo hostname <original-hostname>”, the problem is solved.  Is 
> there anyway to disable this behaviour for networkmanager?

I have the exact same problem too. If somebody has a solution, I'd like
to hear about it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-13 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-13 10:05 networkmanager hostname woes Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-13 17:01 ` Christopher Baines
2017-09-13 23:27 ` Arun Isaac [this message]
2017-09-14  6:38   ` Christopher Baines
2017-09-15 12:14   ` ng0
2017-09-15 12:34     ` ng0
2017-09-16  6:57     ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-16  8:11       ` ng0
     [not found] ` <87h8w6ha74.fsf@gmail.com>
2017-09-14  7:50   ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-14  8:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-15 10:12   ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-15 20:34     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-16 12:03       ` [bug#28473] " Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-16 12:03         ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-19 12:06         ` [bug#28473] " Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-19 12:06           ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-09-19 18:13         ` bug#28473: (no subject) Thomas Danckaert

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